A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me |
A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me |
Apr 18 2005, 01:52 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 17-April 05 Member No.: 236 |
I just joined this community last night, and I'm just curious about some of the people here. I'm only 19 years old, but I'm more interested in all things space than anyone I've ever met. Just out of curiosity, what are people's ages in this forum?
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Jun 28 2008, 05:25 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 11-June 08 From: Portsmouth (England) Member No.: 4202 |
Hi all:
I'm 39 (Born 4 weeks before the first Moon landing in Austin TX - took a boat! back to Italy few weeks later!). Wife and 2 children. Father is an astronomer, but I was too shocked having to endure all this telescopes in strange places to actually be interested in astronomy. Somehow ended up following the then-girlfriend in California and getting a job at JPL in the communications divisions. Worked as a telecom system engineer in few projects. Few never made it to launch (Europa orbiter ... and would you believe it we were working on MSR on 1999 for a launch in 2003&2005? but a lot of the young talent developed in those days indeed contributed to something launching in 2003). Two did not make it (the 2 DS2 probes). Finally success with Odyssey and the MERs. I've left MER at the end of the primary mission (that's quite a long time ago!) and that's when I started reading this forum. Yes, it was easier to read this forum, then to go to mission control in a different building. Worked on MSL until CDR 1 year ago ... ... then we decided to go back across the pond to old Europe for a lot of reasons ... we still ended up in England which at least culturally in mid-way. I still work in the space business even if at the moment not for a science mission. So I need to use this forum + Emily's wonderful blog for the latest around the solar system. Apologies for the long saga. Cheers, Andrea |
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